Description
This role will provide support for families across the continuum of need. The service aims to assist families in recognising and accessing relevant support networks which will enable them to enjoy and achieve a good standard of family life and wellbeing without the need for input from Children’s Social Care.
Working within a supportive management structure, you will be responsible for the delivery of ‘whole family’ assessments and interventions using a ‘Team Around the Family’ framework. Through the use of regular review and management oversight, you will support the progression and achievement of ‘outcomes based’ family plans.
Your work will be highly collaborative in nature, relational in approach and heavily influenced by principles of systemic practice. The service maintains commitment to the delivery of high-quality support through intensive partnership working with families and universal provisions.
As a keyworker, you will navigate and broker families’ access to a range of community services including health, education and third sector provisions. Keyworkers work closely alongside locality management, to achieve the delivery of high-quality support for families.
You will receive regular case supervision to support and guide the progression of your work with families. In addition, you will benefit from exposure to peer input and influences through your engagement in ‘mixed locality’ reflective discussion groups held on a monthly basis.
The successful candidate will be a skilled, experienced and child-focussed practitioner, with a background of relationship-based work with children, young people and their families. You will be a confident practitioner, with broad understanding of child development.
Essential Requirements
- Experience of undertaking effective decision making that leads to improved outcomes and reduces the risk of safeguarding issues.
- Knowledge and understanding of systemic and strengths-based approaches.
- Extensive knowledge about the wide range of Early Help support available across the continuum of need ranging from universal through to targeted services.
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of the research and evidence in relation to child development including issues affecting babies, children and young people’s vulnerability and resilience.
- Knowledge of statutory services and relevant children’s legislation including a high awareness of child protection and safeguarding thresholds, indicators of need and procedures.